âWe did two takes of the song, and itâs performed in front of a pretty big crowd,â Demme remembered. âAnd by that point, Meryl wasnât even looking at the strings, she was just playing.
âOzymandiasâ is at first glance a sonnet about the transitory nature of life and its pretensions of fame and fortune. The decaying, ancient statue bears witness to the fact that the pursuit of power and glory for their own sakes are not only fleeting, but they are also illusory, unworthy ambitions even within the lifetime of their seekers.
Ozymandias: about the poem. Ozymandias is one of the most anthologized poems written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is a sonnet, first published in The Examiner in 1818. The next year, it got a place in Shelleyâs collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems (1819). The sonnet is about the ruins of a statue of Ozymandias. In antiquity, Ozymandias was a Greek name for the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE.